Hey Founder Fam,

Happy December: workout routines have gone to shambles, scarves are back in, Ryan Holmes’ is addicted to egg nog lattes, Kyle Moore’s been cheating ahead on her Purdy’s advent calendar, Erin O’halloran’s RSVP’d to 14-holiday parties, Rey’s booked her holiday flights to Jamaica, Swish has already watched the Home Alone movie twice and for the love of saint nick, all of you still need to RSVP to our Labs Batch 13 pitch off happening in 48 hours.

We’re sending this month’s newsletter a tad early cuz we have some exciting news to drop. No, we didn’t lock in Taylor Swift as a guest speaker for January (though rumour has it she’s meeting a few of you in Vancouver this week) butttttt we’re stoked to share we have our Labs 13 Showcase Pich Event going down in a matter of hours…

Also….

• ✏️ Our next cohort (Labs 14) application link has just dropped

• 💸 Casey, our Senior Analyst at LOI VC is actively meeting founders who are raising (book a meeting with him here and mention this cool newsletter to speed up his reply rate)

• ☕️ And we just wrapped an 11/10 deep dive master class with some crazy impressive speakers like Jake, Shahrzad, Ryan, Natalie Cartwright and Eric Janssen.

And in case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard, LOI’s working our little elf butts off to host festive meetups in December across Canada next month. Save your seat below before it’s too late:

• 🎟 RSVP to the Vancouver Holiday Meetup Dec 17th (hosted by Jen Orr)

• 🎟 RSVP to the Toronto Holiday Meetup Dec 17th (hosted by Ve Sharma)

• 🎟 RSVP to the Montreal NY Meetup Jan 2025 (hosted by Erin)

• 🎟 RSVP to the Calgary Holiday Meetup Dec 17th (hosted by Devon/Kelcie)

• 🎟 RSVP to the Halifax NY Meetup happening in Jan 2025 (hosted by Kyle)

🎉 Meet our Speakers for the Labs 13 Showcase

The founders on stage…

1. 📌 Jenn Orr Founder of Poppoff

2. 📌 Daniel Martinez Founder of GradeAssist

3. 📌 Adam Chu Founder of Arnii

4. 📌 Imam Khalid Founder of SellStatic

5. 📌 Harshit Mulchandani Founder of Oppotunest

6. 📌 Christy Lee and Ethan Alvizo Cofounders of Patient Companion

7. 📌 Serina Ahmad and Ella Farlinger Cofounders of Trusti

The judges that have agreed to hear the pitches…

1. 🥁 Florence Leung, serial entrepreneur and investor

2. 🥁 Simi Sodhi from Baker Tilly

3. 🥁 Alexander AJ Case from Osler

4. 🥁 Rob Ironside from a pretty badass accelerator called LOI

Pretty wild line-up right?

You can also read this blog to see what each of them are building.

Well, if you haven’t RSVP’d already and want to do so, save a seat by clicking below.

👀 Thoughts of the Month:

Okay okay, signing off now.

Your startup bestie-boos,

💙 The LOI Fam

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